LATE AUTUMN

This week I set my students the exercise of making an arrangement using autumn leaves. I asked them to 'use their imagination' because I find the beauty of the leaves tempts me to simply use them naturalistically. I wanted the students to think beyond the obvious. I gathered some plane tree leaves in Melbourne and discovered the ones that had fallen into bushes had more interesting shapes whereas those on  the pavement were all flat. 

I have used a single branch of pittosporum (pittosporum undulatum), an Australian native tree, from which I have removed all the leaves to show the bright orange berries. I massed the berries by entwining all the smaller branchlets. 




(Today is officially the second day of winter in Victoria)

 Greetings from Christopher
2nd June 2013

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3 comments:

  1. MichaelJune 3, 2013 at 3:13 AM

    Beautifully simple and elegant.

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  2. Takako WadaJune 3, 2013 at 6:13 PM

    Hello. I love this arrangement. I felt something powerful in this work.

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  3. Christopher JamesJune 3, 2013 at 8:33 PM

    Dear Takako,
    thank you for your comment. I number of people have said to me that they like the way the leaves make such an interesting mass.

    Regards,
    Christopher

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